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[QUOTE="ivorytower, post: 3008817, member: 6888"]
Thanks Powell, always a good analysis by one of the best. Your season summary and unit grades are objective , based critique delivered without negativity which is refreshing.  No unit deserved lower than a B nor were any A's loosely given out though I may have assigned some A minuses.  Perhaps a season grade on coaching can be added.

The regular season record of 9-4 is  better than most projected and  easily could have been even better.

If Colgate was scheduled later as normal then it would have been  a resounding win instead of a dumbsss opening loss that still haunts.  UVA and UNC games simply should have been closed out ( will get back to those ). If so , Cuse could have been 12-1 ( let's say 11-2 without Duke comeback where we were dormant for 3q ) and perhaps ranked #1-#2 today  instead of #10 wondering where we stand for NCAA's.

Some will say rose colored glasses but beyond their one goal victory over Duke , all those second half comeback wins against good teams were by decisive margins. Team stats show an advantage in every category other than a small difference in sog % . This is a good team

The postseason will obviously be a tell tale and the path to a FF will be more difficult than it should have been. Team will need to play a full sixty minutes. No reason to believe the one and done postseason wont bring that out. When teams watch film on us they will see that our losses to UVA and UNC were due to breakdowns defending inverts. Im sure that is being worked on extensively during break as well as some clearing errors.

Say it again about postseason, regardless of seed or not , regardless of home or road.

Respect all, fear none.
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